While browsing around the internet today, I have noticed that the fan website Kritik der Animationskraft has revealed some new information about Leiji Matsumoto's Zero Desigze, which has been under development for a few years. While no release date stil isn't yet indicated, the same mentioned that a pachinko game version of it just got launched in Japan, thus the fate of Zero Desigze now mirrors that of Leiji Matsumoto's Dai Yamato re-imagining of Space Battleship Yamato, which started off with a pachinko game series first with the anime OVA miniseries tie-in (Great Yamato No. 0, or in Japanese language terms, Dai Yamato Zero-Go) of it coming out afterwards. Anyway, it's nice of Kritik der Animationskraft to feature an English translation to the premise description featured in the Zero Desigze Pachinko game website (which I suggest you should check out to see what the characters and mecha look like), and it reads as folows:

"Zero Desigze is the form of a new humanity, the product of a fusion between humans and the unknown high-energy Trinity ore. After an incident that leaves him badly wounded, Ichiro Haya is brought back from the brink of death by a mysterious scientist as Zero Desigze, who will fight for the future of mankind. The year is Imperial Date 2222, the setting is the vastness of the universe, the curtain on the battle of chosen begins!"

Like Cosmo Super Dreadnought Mahoroba, Zero Desigze will involve both giant robots and spaceships together in one space battle. Zero Desigze's protagonal robot is Zinba (associating with the Himiko, the anime's protagonal spaceship), and it appears it has a Harlock numbskull insignia on its head, and although one of the featured characters is being refered to as "Doctor Zero", this is no Harlock story.

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